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James Buchanan Duke
James Buchanan Duke was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the invention of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing techniques, and his involvement with Duke University. He was the founder of the American Tobacco Company in 1890.
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business · Founder of the American Tobacco Company (1856–1925) · entrepreneur · also James Buchanan Duke, James B. Duke, James Duke, Duke
Born 23 December 1856 · Died 10 October 1925 · Q2916122
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2026· 2 entries
“How long is this endless groveling before every cry of”
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1928· 1 entry
And also named in Duke's honor
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1927· 1 entry
Doris sued her mother for control of the family house in Manhattan and won
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1925· 2 entries
And is interred with his father and brother in the Memorial Chapel on the campus of Duke University
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Died 1925-10-10.
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1907· 1 entry
Married the widow Nanaline Holt Inman, with whom he had his only child, a daughter, Doris, born November 22, 1912
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1906· 1 entry
The American Tobacco Company was found guilty of antitrust violations, and was ordered to be split into four separate companies: American Tobacco Company, Liggett & Myers, R
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1904· 2 entries
To Lillian Fletcher McCredy (also known as Lillian Nanette Duke)
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Established the Catawba Power Company and the following year he and his brother founded the Southern Power Company, which became known as Duke Power, the precursor to the Duke Energy conglomerate
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1892· 1 entry
The Dukes opened their first textile firm in Durham, North Carolina, which was run by Buck's brother Benjamin
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1885· 1 entry
James Buchanan Duke acquired a license to use the first automated cigarette making machine (invented by James Albert Bonsack), and by 1890, Duke supplied 40 percent of the American cigarette market (then known as pre-rol
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1856· 2 entries
Near Durham, North Carolina, to tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist, and benefactor of Duke University, Washington Duke (1820–1905), and his second wife, Artelia Roney
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Born 1856-12-23.
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